Desperate Reader

My passion for cookbooks has finally and comprehensively outgrown available shelf space in the kitchen, rogue volumes are colonising other...

I've read a few of the British Library crime classics now and enjoyed them all but ' Mystery in White'  is without doubt the b...

I've been here for just over 5 years now and although posts about the nature of blogging (as I see it) aren't really my thing every ...

Translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem Marc Pastor works as a CSI in Barcelona as well as writing, this is his first book to be p...

About 14 years ago I bought my first book about bread; Tim Allen's 'The Ballymaloe Bread Book' (in case you wondered) from it ...

I've been told that using the British Library as a library can be a challenge, never having had to try I can neither confirm or deny ...

Translated by Lola M. Rogers. When ' The Rabbit Back Literature Society ' landed on my doorstep I had no idea who had sent it, t...

If it seems like a while since I wrote about a novel it's probably because it took me the best part of two weeks to wade through '...

I have a couple of reviews up on the latest Shiny New Books, this one about the brilliant  H is for Hawk  and this one about the indispens...

This post was meant to follow the one about female role models the other day because it was reading about Peggy Angus which set me off think...